Re: [LAU] Audio player that handles WMA audio files and WPL playlists

From: david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Mar 01 2011 - 20:47:35 EET

Joel Roth wrote:
> A friend has an old laptop with Windows XP that is
> misbehaving.
>
> He has a lot of music and playlists in the above formats.
> Does Linux have a player that is compatible with these?
> Wine is also possible, especially if the apps can be
> run off an existing Windows partition.

If the WMAs are encrypted, I don't think any Linux distro can play them.

> I'm considering installing a Linux distribution for him.
> The window manager needs to be lightweight enough to run on
> a Pentium M, with 500MB memory. He'd like to be able to
> view videos as well.

Any distro with the XFCE desktop environment. Try some of the Linux Live
CDs like Linux Mint on it and see.

-- 
David
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